Woman jailed for microwaving kitten after it attacked her goldfish

JAILED: Laura Cunliffe has been jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to putting her four-month-old cat in the microwave [ROSS PARRY]

Laura Cunliffe has been jailed for 14 moths after admitting to putting her four-month-old female cat in the microwave for FIVE minutes.

She then arranged for the black and white puss to be buried after its horrific death.

Speaking after the hearing at Barnsley Magistrates' Court, Lynsey Harris from the RSPCA, said: "It is a particularly horrendous case because the period of suffering for the kitten would have been awful.

Ms Harris said that the crime was like nothing she had seen in her 13 years in the job.

She added: "The kitten was about four-months-old and the exposure to the radiation in the microwave would have cooked the animal's internal organs and that will have been pretty horrendous.

CRUEL: The cat was said to have attacked Cunliffe's pet goldfish [ROSS PARRY]

“It is a horrific case in the fact the death of the cat would have been prolonged and it is unimaginable what it would have gone through, taking some time to die”

Lynsey Harris from the RSPCA

"It is a horrific case in the fact the death of the cat would have been prolonged and it is unimaginable what it would have gone through, taking some time to die."

Cunliffe took Mowgli out of the microwave after one minute having realised the horror of what she had done, but the cat died shortly after.

Her solicitor Alan Greaves said Cunliffe had a history of mental illness and had been sectioned on several occasions.

District Judge John Foster said: "This was an act of utterly horrendous cruelty on your part on an animal that, as far as I could see, had come to trust you and rely on you."